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Vol. XXIII. 



NOV. 15, 1895. 



No. 22. 



I'm right glad A. I. Root is on the sick-list. 



VoGEL scouts the idea of crossing Apis dor- 

 sata with the common bee. [Who said they 

 could be?— Ed.] 



Weygandt finds that virgin queens are fer- 

 tilized sooner if taken to a distant apiary than 

 if left at their own home. 



Thanks to Bro. Poppleton for light given, p. 

 807. He encourages me to think that my 

 scheme outlined on p. 740 may possibly work all 

 right. 



In England they have been having trouble 

 in some law cases to decide whether or not 

 beeswax is a drug. Not much of a "drug on 

 the market," anyhow. 



Will A YOUNG queen make her bridal excur- 

 sion so long as unsealed brood is present? 

 Gravenhorst says he has never known it to 

 occur except in a single instance. 



The bee clover that I asl<ed about Sept. 15, 

 L. P. Cousins writes he has grown for years. 

 " When once seeded it will seed itself like cara- 

 way; will scent your whole garden." 



Rapid feeding. The slower this can be 

 done the better, provided there is time. I find 

 from experience that rapidly fed stocks are 

 generally weak in the spring.— Apiarist in 

 B. B. J. 



The great variation in the weight of bees 

 given on p. 800— from 3000 to 10,200— will be bet- 

 ter understood when it is mentioned that the 

 10.200 bees in a pound were brought to the 

 starving-point. 



I said I was glad a. I. Root was on the 

 sick-list— not that I wish him harm, but he's 

 hunting up some useful things that the rest of 

 us can have the benefit of; and if he'd stayed 

 well and strong he never would have thought 

 of them. 



L. P. Cousins writes that he has wood -base 

 foundation in a number of hives, and the combs 

 are as fine as could be desired. One's sympa- 

 thies are aroused for the family of the inventor, 

 who is now hopelessly insane. 



My little patch of crimson clover looks 

 quite green the first of November. Sown wiih 

 oats in spring it bloomed pretty well, and I 

 supposed would be dead long ago; but I don't 

 expect it to stand the winter. 



Hasty says in Review that " a hive needs a 

 visible number on it no more than a toad needs 

 a tail." Which makes me think, in view of the 

 confidence I put in Bro. Hasty's judgment, that 

 I may have underestimated a toad's need of a 

 tail. 



A Straw on page 800 says, " I have thou- 

 sands of sections filled with foundation." Cer- 

 tainly not a remarkable statement, but please 

 add to it something like this: "three or more 

 years old that I expect the bees to accept all 

 right next year." 



I don't know about that opinion " that the 

 beginner had better commence with the small 

 hive." Too much danger he'll let his bees 

 starve, unless, indeed, he uses the small, hive 

 two stories. [I don't know— I don't know but 

 you are right.— Ed.] 



I FIND some excellent hymn tunes written by 

 E. E. Hasty — same name as the one who writes 

 such wonderfully bright reviews in Revieiv. I 

 suppose it's the same man. [That Hasty is an 

 all-around genius, and a lover of the really 

 beautiful in life. — Ed.] 



Gravenhorst says you could not make a 

 worse mistake than to try to winter on combs en- 

 tirely filled from top to bottom with sealed hon- 

 ey. [It would be bad policy; but there are, in 

 my estimation, many worse things that could 

 be done.— Ed.] 



In reply to my question, " What constitutes 

 too large a colony?" friend Hand says, p. 809, 

 "Too many bees." That throws a fiood of 

 light upon the question. Now will he kindly 

 tell us how many he thinks "too many"? 

 [We will leave friend Hand to answer.— Ed.] 



